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Friday, 15 October 2010

Dragonflies Over Water.

This is an encaustic technique that I have not featured before (I don't think so anyway. This is called and indirect technique. Instead of applying the wax directly to the base glossy card, it is applied to a piece of tissue (as in the type you blow you nose on).

Three colours are added to the tissue - in this case brown, green and blue. This is then laid onto the card and heat is applied to the tissue with the tip of the iron which transfers a bit of wax to the white card. The design is built up from scratch just by adding little dabs of the different coloured waxes to make the picture. The fence posts and grasses were created by running the edge of the iron along the tissue.

The water line was shown by adding some of the dark blue wax to the bottom of the rock and then rubbing it vigorously with the tip of a finger. This generates enough heat to partially melt the wax again and smudge it around.

The dragonflies were added at the end using a stylus tool which is needed to crate the fine lines.

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About Me

I work full time so crafting is only a hobby at the moment but I would very much like to turn it into a career. It is just a case of waiting for the right time.
I love rubber stamping, creating my own backgrounds using various techniques and many other forms of papercraft. Although I have done traditional scrapbooking for many years, I have also just discovered digital scrapbooking. If you would like to see some of my pages find DaisyTrail.com on the web and search for Shirl Freeman. Encasutic art is another favourite of mine. You can create some stunning pictures without being able to paint or draw, which I cannot do to save my life. My encaustic work ranges from small toppers for cards to A3 in size.
In "The Other Blog" I am going to keep away from papercrafting and use this one to present my other craft work such as altered art, paintings, stictching etc.